Ben Greear wrote:
Here's an update of the tulip-NAPI and skb-recycle patches. I made some
changes to get it to compile and work when the RECYCLE define in skbuff.h
was not enabled.
I also got some test runs in. Nothing really conclusive.
Test setup: Phobos 4-port NIC in each P-IV 1.8Ghz machine 32/33 PCI bus.
Kernel 2.4.20-rc1 + my patches. NICs connected to each other over CX
cables.
Sending 4k 1514 byte packets per second, send + receive. (48Mbps or so)
RX ring size is 1024 for all of these tests. No significant errors
reported
by the driver. I don't know where these dropped packets go..no counter
seems to be catching them.
I changed to use smaller packets 757 bytes long, and to send/receive twice
as many (8kpps). Still running at 50Mbps or so.
rx-ring is 256, still using skb-recycling with 300 skb hotlist.
Out of 57 million sent, dropped about 24k packets. I also see about
3k of Rx-Drops on each interface. No other significant errors reported
by the driver....
Any ideas for what to try next? What about upping the skb-hotlist to
1024 or so? Maybe also pre-load it with buffers to make it less likely we'll
run low? (Rx-Drops means it could not allocate a buffer, right?)
Enjoy,
Ben
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